Reporter Michael Joseph Gross describes Palin's youngest son, Trig, being pushed in a stroller by his older sister, Piper, before a rally in May in the Kansas City suburb of Independence.
"When the girl, Piper Palin, turns around, she sees her parents thronged by admirers, and the crowd rolling toward her and the baby, her brother Trig, born with Down syndrome in 2008," according to the article. "Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, bend down and give a moment to the children; a woman, perhaps a nanny, whisks the boy away; and Todd hands Sarah her speech and walks her to the stage."
Later, Gross describes Piper joining her mother on the stage to "allow Palin to make a public display of maternal affection."
The problem, which was first reported by the website Politico, was that the boy the reporter described was another child with Down syndrome.
The mother of that child, conservative activist Gina Loudon, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she told Gross during the rally that the child in the stroller was her son, not Palin's. She said she tried to make it clear because the two children look a lot alike.
"I told him that. And he ignored it," Loudon said. "It's not even like he didn't fact check - he just ignored facts."
Gross said in a written statement sent to The Associated Press that he was mistaken.
"Trig was with his mother the next day in Wichita (Kan.), but the child in Independence was someone else, and I regret the error," he said.
Palin was quick to call the article "yellow journalism" in a tweet. The article describes everything from stingy tips given to hotel staff to heated fights between Palin and her husband.
Doug McMarlin, a spokesman for Palin's political action committee, said in a written statement Friday that the article was a "collection of lies."
"As the message continues to succeed, the messenger will continue to be attacked by yellow journalists seeking to increase sales," McMarlin said. "Our focus remains on the historic 2010 election and the brave Americans that have courageously entered the public arena to bring commonsense leadership back to our federal, state and local offices."
Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010
Hmmm, just as ours gets worse by leaps and bounds...
Did you even bother to read my comment, Vickie?
I am forced to use a computer that is made in China, of course (who isn't?) I've never tried to "hide" that all too common fact so stop trying to spin everything just because you know I'm right and you ain't got nuthin else, Vickie.
"I'll bet your computer was made in China or at least 50% of all of its components. But then you're a socialist and so it's okay."
LOL, so it's not okay for you to be typing on a socialist made computer, because you're not a socialist? Why do you even bother, Vickie? Have you been spending time in Bernie Karls radioactive hot spring water again?
AP: -- "So, are you guys saying that tens of millions of jobs HAVEN"T been outsourced?!"
No one said that. You said ALL the jobs have been outsourced. That is a patently absurd statement and obviously, false.... since I have a job and I assume you do, too. As it turns out, every person who works and the Daily News Miner also has a job and in fact, about 20,000 Fairbanksans have jobs and about 50,000,000 Americans have jobs. Can you post a link to the statistic that show "tens of millions of jobs have been outsourced"?
I guess the mantras of anti-socialists only apply to petty political arguments, and not real life.
If you are against a socialist government, and buy things that are made in China- YOU are a hypocrite. Further evidence would be the use of the word "socialist" as though it has four letters, while typing on a computer that was most likely made in a socialist country, at least the computer will have parts made by socialists.
It's funny to still see people clinging to cold war stereotypes, you guys must have had it pretty good back in the 50's-60's, I would probably be bitter too if all the ideals and morals I was taught as a child all turned out to be wrong someday, although it's sad to see so many people in such desperate denial. Oh well...
"Trig was with his mother the next day in Wichita (Kan.), but the child in Independence was someone else"
Eh? Sooo, why was her baby in another state?
And um, why didn't Palin HERSELF explain to anyone that the child on the stage was NOT her own? I mean, if they look so much alike... (you'd think you might want to explain that, otherwise it'd be easy to assume that the child is hers as she has a child of the same age and appearance, who was in another state at the time).
I can't imagine leaving a less than two year old baby of mine, in a different state, without EITHER parent? Sounds like Saruh was trying to pass of this other womans baby as her own, at the rally, because she was possibly trying to (pathetically) avoid any accusations of being a neglectful parent by choosing an "event" over the care of her baby.
I think she used Loudens baby as a stand in for her own, and it backfired on her. Now she (and Louden) are trying to use the reporters MISTAKE as a distraction to the meat of WHY she had another womans baby at that rally, as though he were her own, to begin with.
I pretty much have the point of view that if you are an adult and you aren't infringing on anyone elses right you sould be free to do whatever makes you happy.
That's Real Freedom
Ivictus, there were still jobs here when Nixon was president, so you're mistaken about that last exaggerated statement of yours. :-) And yeah, if they'd let American farmers grow industrial hemp, America would be a LOT better off in myriad ways. But the crooked corporate government keeps them from doing it, even though it isn't even psychoactive. I'm asking you seriously. Why do you think that is?
Really dumb. You're like a Batty Cathy doll that keeps saying the same thing over and over and over again. I'm sure you've been doing this ever since Nixon was elected. Amazingly, you did not cry "Hemp!" in your last comment.
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The unemployment rate increased a tenth of a percent today. This as a positive sign and proof that Obama's stimulus plan is working. Sighting this news and the resent slowdown in manufacturing Obama made this statement. "Good, good, my plan is working perfectly. Soon, I will rule the wor...HEY, is this thing on? Oh, it is. Well, as you can all plainly see, the Bush recession is over, thanks to me." Now if you will excuse me, I have a vacation to get back to."
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